Ru Yi, male, Erhu teacher. Since childhood, he has been learning the piano with Zhang Shoukang, a famous erhu performer and chief executive of Shandong Song and Dance Theater. During the university, he learned from the famous erhu educator Wu Zhimin, and the graduate students learned from the famous erhu educator Wang Yongde. He is currently a master tutor of the Department of Folk Music of the Shanghai Conservatory of Music.

His performance gathers the strengths of many families and brings together various styles, forming a unique artistic temperament and playing style - exquisite technique, distinctive style, combination of rigidity and softness, full of passion. During the university, he learned from the famous erhu educator Wu Zhimin, and the graduate students learned from the famous erhu educator Wang Yongde.

He is also a member of the Chinese Musicians Association, vice chairman and secretary general of the Erhu Professional Committee of the Shanghai Musicians Association.

He has recorded and published many performance albums, and has cooperated with the Central Chinese Orchestra, China Radio Symphony Orchestra, Shanghai Philharmonic Orchestra, Shanghai Chinese Orchestra, Taipei Chinese Orchestra, etc. to hold concerts.

In addition to erhu performance and teaching, he also devotes himself to music production and theoretical research, and has composed music for many TV series and recorded nearly 100 CDs and DVDs for digital musicians. Published several influential papers in various core journals across the country, such as: "De-folkization" of Erhu Art Development and Wang Jianmin's Erhu Music Creation, "A's Casual Thoughts"—On Hu Deng's Dance "A" Thoughts" and Performance Experience", "Teaching by Example and Words - On Min Huifen's Erhu Teaching Art" and so on. He has composed and performed many erhu songs such as Ballad, Rite of Sorrow, and Follow me try felling. In particular, "follow me try felling", created and performed using advanced electronic music equipment and various sound effects, combines new erhu sounds with electronic music and performs real-time linkage, showing a more contemporary erhu vocabulary. The creative cross-border performance endows the erhu, a traditional national musical instrument, with a modern and new fashion, bringing a new visual and auditory impact, which has aroused widespread praise in the industry.